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As hungry minds, you each embody the curious, creative, collaborative spirit Palmwood is working to amplify across the Middle East.  Come join us for a private dinner experience and collective conversation with 50 top designers, creative thinkers, policymakers, and curious souls from around the globe gathered during the World Government Summit. Our Sand Circle Supperclub will explore the role that creativity, curiosity, and co-creation can play in building a nation of the future. A mashup of intimate personal storytelling, conversations, and creative activities, this evening will be a chance for all of us to connect our voices and meet like-minded collaborators and provocateurs.

The evening will be hosted by Palmwood, the UAE’s collaboration with global design and innovation firm IDEO. Palmwood is a mission-driven organization, co-founded to elevate the “creative capabilities of the country” and bring new design-led mindsets and methods into the heart of government and the hands of its people. Together, we are creating movements, programs, policies, and learning experiences that elevate the creative strengths of the nation. This is a new chapter of "Citizen-Centered Design." Come open, come hungry, and come ready to kick your shoes off and connect with others in a joyful, creative, and intimate way. 

-Your Friends at Palmwood

Palmwood is a design-led movement formed in partnership between IDEO and the UAE government. Together, we are creating bold concepts to transform the lives of people in the United Arab Emirates, developing creative capabilities across the nation & opening up new conversations about what is possible through design. Our work is about amplifying the new renewable resources of curiosity, creativity, & co-creation. Get to know us at Palmwood.org and @_Palmwood_ on Instagram.